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Books They nurtured the fantasies of millions of readers — did they also pave the way for Donald Trump?
In Michael Grynbaum's new book, magazine moguls Si Newhouse Jr. and Alexander Liberman preside over the creation of a tastemaking empire
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Books After 40 years in Jerusalem, everything has changed except one man’s love for it
'A Rooftop in Jerusalem’ follows one man’s relationship with the city as its politics and landscape change.
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Books Is Gary Shteyngart’s latest dystopia any less frightening than the one we’re currently living in?
The author's latest, 'Vera, or Faith,' arrives in a world that may be moving too fast for satire to keep up.
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News What one Jewish reporter learned about forgiveness from two hate crimes in two sanctuaries
In his new book, journalist Kevin Sack examines how Charleston’s Mother Emanuel church and Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue became linked by violence — and grace
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Books In WWII’s only all-female concentration camp, community was the key to survival
Lynne Olson’s book ‘The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück’ reveals the unsung stories of female French resistance fighters
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Art In 1960’s New York, the past was a foreign country — they sure did things differently there
A cornucopia of Jewish artists populate the pages of 'Everything Is Now,' J. Hoberman's massive survey of New York's avant-garde
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Fast Forward Novel set in a war-torn Ukraine wins Sami Rohr prize for Jewish literature
“Your Presence Is Mandatory” by Sasha Vasilyuk is based on a family secret harbored by the author’s grandfather
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Culture Those new Isabel Allende and Percival Everett novels are fake, but the scandal surrounding them is real
An AI-generated list of summer book titles is the sort of thing Talmudic sages warned against
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Holy Ground A Jewish farmer broke ground on a synagogue in an Illinois cornfield. His neighbors showed up to help.
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Opinion I discovered anti-Zionism at the University of Michigan. I’m glad it lives on there
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Opinion An alarming new battleground in campus fights over Israel
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News Middlebury College Hillel votes to rebrand, distancing from parent group on Israel
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News Alex Soros commits $30 million to organizations fighting antisemitism — and its weaponization
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Fast Forward Israeli singer says he is tuning out ‘stop the genocide’ chants as he heads into Eurovision final
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Fast Forward Kristof column alleging Israeli abuse of Palestinian prisoners sparks outrage, scrutiny and debate among Jews
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Fast Forward From Rutgers speaker to Kristof column, disputed dog rape claim against Israel goes mainstream